Indianapolis – International City of Peace

In September 2019, PeaceNow.com organized and lead the effort resulting in the Indianapolis City Council adopting a Resolution wherein Indianapolis was designated to be an International City of Peace.  Sept 21^st of each year was designated to be the Indianapolis Day of Peace.

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Vision

Citizens of Indianapolis envision a community where joy, harmony, truth, freedom, prosperity and peace become our global identify.

Mission

The Indianapolis community will work to create peace through participatory peaceful initiatives.  We will joyfully celebrate the 21^st of September, the United Nations International Day of Peace, as an inspirational day offered as a gift to ourselves and our world family.  With the purpose of inspiring us to live and practice peaceful compassionate behavior throughout the year.

Goals

To co-create peace by empowering our citizens to offer solutions, ideas, and initiatives that support peaceful sustainable economic and social development, respect for human rights, including the right to peace, advance mutual understanding and tolerance through participatory communication

To establish peace education as a regular part of the curriculum for our young and mature citizens.

To encourage other international cities of peace by providing a successful example of how to build peace globally by acting locally.

The Indianapolis Peace Coalition

The following organizations and individuals added their support and energy in enlisting Indianapolis city-county council pass this historic resolution:

Los Angeles – International City of Peace

In 2014, PeaceNow.com organized and lead the effort resulting in the Los Angeles City Council adopting a Resolution wherein Los Angeles was declared to be an official International City of Peace. September 21st was designated the Los Angeles Day of Peace in perpetuity and the city declared it would support development of policies, procedures and practices that promote the culture of peace.

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Los Angeles is the 2nd largest city in the United States with a population of nearly 4 million people. We greatly appreciate the help from the following organizations and people for their contributions to peace and to the people of Los Angeles.

We thank the following organizations:

International Cities of Peace
Rotary Club of Playa Venice Sunrise
Mama Hill’s Help
Unity-and-Diversity World Council

We thank the following individuals:

Below are the Vision, Mission and Goal statements of the organizers of the Los Angeles City of Peace Initiative.